The spooky introduction to classical music for millions of children. From Disney's Fantasia, 1940. This piece was (mostly) completed by 1939. According to The Source, Leopold Stokowski conducted for free. This is the one piece in the film not recorded by Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra. Original score by Paul Dukas.
Before the Hold Steady were deemed the world's greatest bar band, these gentleman wore the crown at a rakishly, drunken angle. Two-fer-one: First up, a rare ballad. Twins fans take note. 2001.
Rawking in Tallahassee, 2000. The Club is Open.
FWIW, lead-singer Bob Pollard was a star HS athlete in Dayton, OH and later pitched a no-hitter for Wright State University.
One last one-hit wonder to drive away with. (this was supposed to run on Aug. 24 but, uh, I'm an idiot. --bS)
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So my video yesterday was a couple of teen girls, and I thought why not continue that trend? Lead singer Annabella Lwin was only 15 when this song was released in 1980! Music piracy was a little different back then.
The live video had embedding disabled, so I had to switch it to the music video. [...]
This video is from a couple years ago so they are older now, but still... Not many kids can skip their awkward phase and be in a hit band at the age of 12.
Here's a seizure-inducing version of the classic, Blood, Sweat & Tears ripoff group, The Ides of March with a lip-sync of their big hit on the 1970 show, Something Else, hosted by John Byner. Lead singer Jim Peterik went on to bigger success with Survivor (of "Eye of the Tiger" fame).
Jyoti Mishra, aka White Town, was all over the radio with 'Your Woman' in 1997. He even wrote an almost embarrassingly personal FAQ about his lone hit.
How does it feel being a one-hit wonder?
Better than being a no-hit wonder!
live 7/31/82, Gateshead, UK, opening for The Police. Their 1979 debut album, Entertainment! ranks 490th on Rolling Stone's 500 best albums list. This song comes later, after the addition of former Robert Fripp bassist Sara Lee.
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Welcome to One-Hit Wonder Week at the WGOM. First up, the Glaswegian headbangers with their chart-topping smash. (You can hardly tell that they're lip-synching.)
Yeah, we've got a bunch of DJs giving a bunch of cool music, but once in a while, you just got have some old white guy music. So, your best buddy SBG has decided to flip an oldie on you every once in a while.
Here's Grace Slick and her f*** buddies[[she slept with every member of the Airplane]] at Woodstock.
or maybe "The Meeting"? I don't know enough to know. Anyway, a love letter to Frightwig. Come back to us! Live on telebision. Benny Bailey (trumpet), Pepsy Auer (piano), George Joyner (bass), Buster Smith (drums). "Jazz-Gehart und gesehen", SWF TV Jazz Concert at the TV/Radio Exhibition, Messehalle, Berlin, Germany, August 30, 1961
“Califone have always been stupidly underappreciated, and the further we stumble into the 21st century, the more this music starts to feel both familiar and necessary.” —Pitchfork
A friend of mine introduced me to The Heavy a few weeks ago, and they absolutely blew my mind. This song is kind of like Gnarls Barkley meets Jamiroquai, but funkier. I have no idea why this band isn't huge. This is at Transmusicales 2007.
Live, 1972. Wowza. Lead singer Ian Gillan was also the original "Jesus" in Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Something you want to see? Call the request line. Did you miss a video or want to watch one again from a while back? Click here for the SBG Music Archive.
Something you want to see? Call the request line. Did you miss a video or want to watch one again from a while back? Click here for the SBG Music Archive.
Something you want to see? Call the request line. Did you miss a video or want to watch one again from a while back? Click here for the SBG Music Archive.
More St. Vincent because A.) I love her, and B.) the other DJ's are slacking. Covering the Magnetic Fields in Los Angeles, 2007. A tender little love song about infidelity and murder from the pen of Stephen Merritt.
One of the best singles of the punk-rock era--and a favorite of the late John Peel. It's a live take from 1978 (that's missing the first 20 seconds or so.)
Performing on Indie 101.3 in Los Angeles. I don't know a whole lot about Nico Vega, as they only have a couple of short EPs to their name. I do know that the singer, who the internet tells me is named Aja Volkman, is pretty awesome.
Bonus Polka Day! Here's your chance to learn something. Myron, son-in-law (and former Mousketeer) Bobby Burgess, and some of Myron's grandchildren demonstrate the Chicken Dance.
Groovy space-rock from the impossibly handsome Lemmy Kilmister and crew, 1972. This stuff makes me wanna pound cough syrup, hop in my car somebody else's car and drive really, really fast. Um, "Polka Week" up next...
We've been seriously lacking in the gurl singer deptartment of late. Chan Marshall and company deliver the goods in San Francisco, 1998. Pity she hides her pretty face behind her bangs, though.